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Re: 12-6-08
Kelso's 100 unit is
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Conference Championship Game Of Year100 UnitsAlabama (+10) over Florida
4:00 PM -- SEC Championship Game - Georgia Dome - Atlanta, GA
Alabama by 3-4
TV: CBS Played at Georgia Dome, Atlanta Comments: The fact undefeated Alabama (12-0) is a 10-point underdog in this game is one its face simply ridiculous. A team does not go 12-0 playing in the Southeastern Conference and that record is proof absolute that the Crimson Tide are an outstanding football game. Alabama runs a very disciplined offense that simply gets it done—and it has a lock-down defense that gives up an average of 11.5 points and 248.5 yards per game. Alabama opened the season as a 4 ½-point underdog with a 34-10 win over Clemson—a game played on the same field on which these teams will compete today. This is a team that has won at Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and LSU—an almost impossible feat—and then closed out the season with a 36-0 home win over Auburn. It is against this background that I will tell you something few people really know about Alabama coach Nick Saban—he has one of the greatest defensive minds in the history of college football. He has defined to art form the ability to teach his defensive backs to jam wide receivers at the line of scrimmage and you can take it to the bank this ability will severely compromise the Florida (11-1) passing game. Please do not take these observations as a knock of the Gators, because it is not meant to be that. Florida is an outstanding football team, with only a one-point, 31-30, home loss to Mississippi to mar its record. But if Alabama does on defense what I think it is going to do, this one is going right to the money and in the end I believe the Crimson Tide will win it straight up.
Partly cloudy with a 30-percent chance of snow. Winds blowing from the Southwest at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 35.
Kelso's 100 unit is
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Conference Championship Game Of Year100 UnitsAlabama (+10) over Florida
4:00 PM -- SEC Championship Game - Georgia Dome - Atlanta, GA
Alabama by 3-4
TV: CBS Played at Georgia Dome, Atlanta Comments: The fact undefeated Alabama (12-0) is a 10-point underdog in this game is one its face simply ridiculous. A team does not go 12-0 playing in the Southeastern Conference and that record is proof absolute that the Crimson Tide are an outstanding football game. Alabama runs a very disciplined offense that simply gets it done—and it has a lock-down defense that gives up an average of 11.5 points and 248.5 yards per game. Alabama opened the season as a 4 ½-point underdog with a 34-10 win over Clemson—a game played on the same field on which these teams will compete today. This is a team that has won at Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and LSU—an almost impossible feat—and then closed out the season with a 36-0 home win over Auburn. It is against this background that I will tell you something few people really know about Alabama coach Nick Saban—he has one of the greatest defensive minds in the history of college football. He has defined to art form the ability to teach his defensive backs to jam wide receivers at the line of scrimmage and you can take it to the bank this ability will severely compromise the Florida (11-1) passing game. Please do not take these observations as a knock of the Gators, because it is not meant to be that. Florida is an outstanding football team, with only a one-point, 31-30, home loss to Mississippi to mar its record. But if Alabama does on defense what I think it is going to do, this one is going right to the money and in the end I believe the Crimson Tide will win it straight up.
Partly cloudy with a 30-percent chance of snow. Winds blowing from the Southwest at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 35.
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